Cathedral architecture

One of England’s great cathedrals, with its tower standing over 40 metres tall above the Fens, Ely Cathedral was rebuilt in the late 11th and 12th centuries in Romanesque style following the Norman invasion then had a burst of exuberance in the 14th century in highly decorated Gothic style in the Choir, the beautiful Lady […]

Ian Caldwell

"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place

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